APRIL 07, 2013 - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Monthly Census.
TIME: 8:00am-1:15pm; 2:30pm-6:30pm TEMP.: 48-60 COND.: Mostly cloudy early, very windy, turning mostly sunny & warm;
wind SW/W at 5-30mph. ROUTES: Same usual morning & afternoon routes except where closed for eagle nesting.
GROUP I: 3 persons; GROUP II: 6 persons. OBS.: Katie Clink (morning only), Mary Finley (morning only), Sue Johnson
(morning only), Donna Kuhn, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht (morning only), Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES.
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3
2. Muskrat - 1
3. White-footed Mouse - 5
4. Meadow Vole - 1
5. Eastern Cottontail - 9
6. White-tailed Deer - 13
II. BIRDS: 91 SPECIES.
1. Canada Goose - 323
2. Mute Swan - 6
3. Trumpeter Swan - 18 (yellow neckbands: "1A2", "3A8" & one too far away to read)
4. Wood Duck - 43
5. Gadwall - 449
6. American Wigeon - 51
7. American Black Duck - 13
8. Mallard - 112
9. Blue-winged Teal - 91
10. Northern Shoveler - 140
11. Northern Pintail - 24
12. Green-winged Teal - 289
13. Canvasback - 1
14. Redhead - 6
15. Ring-necked Duck - 30
16. Greater Scaup - 1
17. Lesser Scaup - 1,052
18. Bufflehead - 29
19. Common Goldeneye - 4
20. Hooded Merganser - 15
21. Common Merganser - 29
22. Ruddy Duck - 14
23. Pied-billed Grebe - 26
24. Double-crested Cormorant - 56
25. Great Blue Heron - 99
26. Great Egret - 48
27. Turkey Vulture - 69
28. Bald Eagle - 24 (4 adult, 20 immature)
29. Northern Harrier - 11
30. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3
31. Cooper's Hawk - 4
32. Red-tailed Hawk - 21
33. American Coot - 959
34. Sandhill Crane - 1
35. Killdeer - 39
36. Greater Yellowlegs - 15
37. Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 212
39. Wilson's Snipe - 21
40. American Woodcock - 3
41. Bonaparte's Gull - 109
42. Ring-billed Gull - 204
43. Herring Gull - 42
44. Caspian Tern - 1
45. Mourning Dove - 34
46. Short-eared Owl - 1
47. Belted Kingfisher - 6
48. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (adult)
49. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
50. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5
51. Downy Woodpecker - 14
52. Hairy Woodpecker - 6
53. Northern Flicker - 50
54. American Kestrel - 3
55. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (immature male)
56. Eastern Phoebe - 25
57. Blue Jay - 9
58. American Crow - 3
59. Horned Lark - 4
60. Purple Martin - 1
61. Tree Swallow - 382
62. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
63. Black-capped Chickadee - 6
64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
65. Brown Creeper - 5
66. Carolina Wren - 2
67. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9
68. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4
69. Eastern Bluebird - 6
70. Hermit Thrush - 16
71. American Robin - 199
72. European Starling - 114
73. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8
74. Eastern Towhee - 4
75. American Tree Sparrow - 80
76. Chipping Sparrow - 12
77. Field Sparrow - 15
78. Savannah Sparrow - 24
79. Fox Sparrow - 64
80. Song Sparrow - 152
81. Swamp Sparrow - 1
82. Dark-eyed Junco - 91
83. Northern Cardinal - 19
84. Red-winged Blackbird - 1,153
85. Eastern Meadowlark - 5
86. Rusty Blackbird - 69
87. Common Grackle - 411
88. Brown-headed Cowbird - 33
89. House Finch - 8
90. American Goldfinch - 11
91. House Sparrow - 18
III. REPTILES: 5 SPECIES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 2
2. Red-eared Turtle - 2
3. Midland Painted Turtle - 9
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES.
1. Bullfrog - 1
2. Northern Leopard Frog - (many calling)
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES.
1. Common Carp - 3
2. Creek Chub - many
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 1 SPECIES.
1. Mourning Cloak - 1

Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio.

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